ON the afternoon of 29th October, a steamer arriving at Kingstown, on the south side of Dublin Bay, reported that a ship had gone ashore. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.
The Motor Life-boat was launched...
On 6th December the s.s. Yewmount, of Glasgow, struck some submerged ob- struction off the Longstone Light House, while bound from Methil to Treport, with coal. The master made for the coast and ran her ashore in Alnmouth Bay. Information...
About 10 P.M.
on the 16th March the wind veered to the west and increased to a gale, and half an hour later the Coastguard reported that a ketch, which was at anchor in the bay, was making signals of...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 11 A.M. on the 4th December, 1937, the coxswain saw a fishing smack approaching the Newcombe Sands and rolling about in a heavy ground swell. Drifting with the N.E. wind and flood tide, she struck heavily, her anchor...
Newhaven, Sussex.—On the 6th of May, 1955, the motor boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and En- filade put out from Dover to take a salvage party to the S.S. Germania, of Piraeus, which had run ashore to the east of Beachy Head on the...
Lifeboats on station are usually solitary craft, but every now and again circumstances brings a group of them together. On the night of June 4 and 5, five lifeboats gathered in Brixham Harbour. Torbay's own Arun, Edward Bridges (Civil... - View image in PDF
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SEARCH FOR AIRCRAFT Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.25 p.m. on 5th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft with two occupants was overdue at Shoreham Airport. The lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant was...
Whitby, Yorkshire, and Hartlepool, Durham.—In the early hours of the 12th March the Whitby motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea. They were the only boats to go out, on account of the bad weather.
With the...
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. — About 11.40 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Duke of Sparta had wire- lessed that she was on the Seven Stones Rocks. A later message said that she was making...
Blyth, Northumberland. — At^ 1.48 A.M. on the 22nd December, 1937, the coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 3 was ashore in Blyth Bay, and that a tug had gone out to her. Owing to poor visibility, he could not see where she was. A...